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thanks! i was thinking about looking into yoga, id like to get my mobility back, i used to be able to get my feet behind my head and my fingers still bend more than they should heh, gonna have to lose some weight for that first tho, all this fat is in the way haha dead bugs... im a bit worried about googling what that is o.o

yes a 2,4 L one filled with water, it seems too light but i wont get my hands on any sand or stones for some time

well atm i only really do the body weight exercises (just... 1-2 repitition? sets? what? oTL ) and those infrequently cause of the move but once im done moving i want to do them at least 4 times a week along with all the biking i do (i currently bike around 20km in ~1hr once or twice a week) i never really have problems after or during any work outs i do but like right now i just do one weird move and it feels like i broke my back...

total noob here when it comes to fitness (still... ugh) i was planning to pick up my workout again next week (i am in the middle of leaving my country to move to another one so im not starting 'today' ) and get my boyfriend involved as well. i like the beginner bodyweight exercise work out even tho its still killing me but im wondering if there is any specific routine i could add to it for my back? i think my back is pretty weak in general and i also may have just... 'thrown out my back' for the second time this year already... i can barely move and my lower back feels like theres 10 knives stuck in my spine so tomorrow ill prolly got jabbed with needles in the back again by the doc... hooray oTL any help is really appreciated, i wouldnt even know what to google for by myself hah...

im german too, i guess bread is just hardwired into our genes do you still live at home then? maybe next time your mom (or dad or whoever does the cooking) starts preparing dinner or something you could just join her and ask her for a few instructions on how to deal with the stove and such (btw i love my open fire gas stove but the microwave terrifies me! it might explode! D8 ) aside from that, if youre not too confident around knives you could look into purchasing one of these things http://www.amazon.de/Genius-Nicer-Dicer-Plus-teilig/dp/B0088N3WWO/ref=sr_1_3?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1387144350&sr=1-3 (sorry german amazon ) at least for fruits and vegetables theyre pretty nice and get everything chopped up quickly (and if dinner sucks, just make a fruit salad in like 2 minutes lol add some plain yoghurt and honey or something and enjoy everyones envy ) as for the flavoring id simply experiment, if you dont like pepper you could try... thyme (i think thats what its called in english) or replace salt with just a little bit of soy sauce. you could also look into herbs like rosemary and basilicum, get a piece of chicken and cut it up into bite sized pieces and flavor each piece with something else to see what you might like? just a random idea tho it would maybe broaden your horizon a little in the seasoning department, theres more than salt and pepper after all

Hi SarahBeth and welcome! im fairly new here as well trying to get fit and healthy (on the other end of the scale tho) so i dont have all that much advice on the fitness department :/ let me tell you however, anyone can cook! and if you make a little effort youll be able to cook your favourite foods every day by far the easiest thing to start with is simple stir fry recipes, you just need a pan and an assortment of meat (if you do eat meat) and vegetables you like! im no expert chef but if you tell me what sort of food you like maybe i can help you figure out how to turn it into something tasty and easy to cook

thanks! i will look those up just done a round of the bodyweight exercise again and i think the worst part is doing jumping jacks before AND after, i feel like my pulse is gonna explode and my lungs ready to pop out =___= i hope this gets better soon asked doc about the joint knacks and he said not to worry about it as long as it doesnt hurt - sore muscles dont count Q.Q;;

got one more question now, is there any warm-up i can do that doesnt involve jumping around or running in place? the apartment walls here are made of cardboard and my upstairs neighbors are loud enough for the whole block already (stairs arent really an option either here)

ugh no time to walk today so i guess itll be bodyweight again tonight (noooooooooo... Q.Q) hm well the problem i have with the plank is my belly muscles are pretty much non-existent so i guess i was trying to lift myself with my back or something, im gonna try that again tonight and figure out what crunches are lol im such a fitness noob xD

well i gotta go for my regular blood test tomorrow anyway, maybe there wont be 50 grandmas there and ill manage to see my doc in under 2 hours of waiting (really only disadvantage of living in a neighborhood for seniors, you wait forever at the docs office, appointment or not ugh! ) its good to know i can do it at whatever time i want, wasnt sure there was a rule of thumb or anything, ive been thinking about doing my walks every second day and doing the bodyweight on the off days until i can do 3 circuits and then see where i can go from there or what specific goal to go for. its probably gonna be something along the lines of making a skirt look like a skirt and not a slowly rolling tent ;D

thanks for the welcome well yesterday i walked for about an hour (+half an hour for groceries) and according to google maps went about 4,2 km, i still havent found the zoo... when i checked google maps after i got home i realized i only had to walk another 5 mins through thick forest to get there *facepalm* didnt do any walking today but tomorrow im gonna find that zoo, im gonna find some deer and feed them! (and after maybe buy some deer meat haha) anyway i wanted to start with beginner body weight circuit from NF today but i was wondering if there is a good time to do it? like before or after eating or right when you get up or go to bed (please dont say first thing in the morning, im the grumpiest morning person there ever was lol) wondering if i should start one of those battle logs too but i gotta figure out a proper goal first i guess edit: uff that body weight thing just kicked my butt only managed 1 circuit but all the recommended repeats for it except for the plank at the end, i cant get my back up at all, feels like its gonna crack in the middle trying to lift all my weight... oTL also wow... my joints sound like firecrackers through all that, should i be worried? never heard my joints going knacknacknack like that... D:

thanks for the welcome aah yes, the smells! thats why i love baking and cooking in general, when i started living with my boyfriend i was so excited to cook for somebody else, i got up at 5 in the morning and cooked him his lunch for work haha i dont really mind revamping my diet, ive been trying to go mostly paleo the last couple weeks (tried sweet potatoes for the first time, why did nobody tell me how delicious those are?!) but its mostly stir fry and that is getting a little boring the whole no bread thing is the only thing im worried about tho, those 2 years i had to live with bread that was pretty much all just the soft american sandwich type or way too sweet packed slices of dark brown bread just sucked hm i did look at supplements like herbs and teas and such last night but i should probably consult my doctor about those first, im a marcuomar patient also called an artificial bleeder, means i have a genetic defect that causes my blood to be way too thick (thrombosis and lung emboly in 2005 that couldve cost my leg or my life) so im taking pills to make my blood thinner and theres so many things i cant take with it, like aspirin, green vegetables, red meats etc etc which sucks cause my fav veggies are spinach and broccoli and beef just smells amazing when you fry it but with this health condition being fat (and smoking btw -.- ) is pretty bad, im 31 now btw and i dont wanna die as a fat 60 year old with dementia... im gonna have grandchildren to meet after all ugh its been raining since yesterday, looks like its gonna be a very muddy walk...

so ive been lurking here for a while because i think i really need change... im not even sure where to start, ive been overweight ever since the birth of my son over 13 years ago, before that i was always slim at about 55kg at 159cm height now i weigh about... 90kg or so (i havent had a scale in years so i dont even know my exact weight except that it was too much) so today was the day i got started, nothing big but i took a walk for almost an hour, little victories right? there is a huge forest area near my appartment with a free-entry zoo! actually i havent found this zoo yet, this forest really is huge! i guess ill try again tomorrow. i have never really exercised in my life and with all this fat i carry around im really not sure what else to do except for walking, i cant really afford a gym membership at the moment and i have never been comfortable in gyms anyway ('haha look at the fat girl trying work out' yea thanks but no thanks) im not a very social person anyway and i get very anxious and nervous when theres more than say 2 strangers around me (thats why this forest is great, theres simply no people around ;P ) but i dont want that to stop me either, there has got to be stuff i can do outside of a gym right? lately theres been so many things i want to be able to do, like do pull ups or jump a fence like they do in the movies, you know put your hands on top of it and jump over kinda sideways? im probably just easily impressed but i think thats amazing! or climb those really high walls in the freeclimbing halls, all the way to the top! id prolly cry at the top cause im not so good with heights and theyll need a crane to get my down again hahaha but those are all things for the future, the problem i have these day is: i cant sleep when i should this has been going for months now and since i have no job i pretty much dont have a regular daily schedule anymore and so from one day to another i stopped sleeping at night ive always been a nightowl, i would do fine with 4-5 hours a night but now when i finally do fall asleep around 3-4am in the morning i sleep for 10 hours or so and feel very groggy and exhausted all day today has been another prime example, i took that walk for about an hour, trying to go a bit faster than usual (my short stumpy legs dont usually like to carry me very fast haha) i was pretty pooped out by the time i got back, i went to bed at around 10pm but sleep simply didnt come so around 1am i just gave up and got up again... i have tried a few things already like setting my alarm clock to 7am but after a week i just stopped hearing it or simply turned it off without actually waking up (and i do that even when the alarm isnt within reach), and i would still fall asleep at 3-4am and then wake up at 7am tired and grumpy i also invested in a better matress when i moved back to germany (im native german but i lived in NL for 2 years with my boyfriend and might possibly go back, <3 NL! ) and that worked out so well in the beginning until the day i couldnt sleep anymore so if anyone has a good tip on how to fall asleep im willing to try pretty much anything, at the end of my rope here oTL im hoping a little that all this walking and eating better will power me out enough to actually sleep normally again ive been looking into paleo and im wondering if anyone knows a good site with paleo specific recipes that also have measurements in kg/celsius? im a little lost with all those funky american measurements... another thing is, like i mentioned earlier im german, i live in a country that has about 500 different kinds of bread and i love 99% of them (not the crap with the raisins, yuck! ) especially brown bread and i love sitting around baking for 8 hrs some days to make it myself too but since paleo seems to be all NO BREAD!! im wondering if i can at least cheat a little? i think bread is the only thing i really cant live without (also only bad thing about NL, sorry dutchies but your bread is just... meh oTL ), i just love bread with ham, bacon or scrambled eggs for breakfast (or lunch, or dinner, or all day hah... ) anyway i think ill stop here now and try giving sleep another go, sorry this post is probably all over the place but to anyone who bothered to read till this point, Hi! where do the chubby people start? edit: oh yea does anyone have a good idea for a side dish to go with a lambs leg with herbal crust? im making that for christmas but i have no idea what side dish would go well with lamb...